History started on January 20, 2025

US military and CIA interventions since WW2There are people who used to write quite well and have gotten incredibly lazy, repetitive, and just plain non-constructive and useless as information sources in just the last month. The drop in quality is noticeable because they’re once again cruising on their TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).

They are being lazy and stupid, acting as if the U.S. used to be good until one month ago, when Trump came back into power. They are acting as if things have gotten markedly and provably worse for everyone, when it’s really that they feel assailed in their own castles now. The people who are assailed no matter who’s in power haven’t noticed much of a difference.

I bet writing and commentating with TDS drives engagement numbers like crazy, though. I bet Hamilton Nolan[1] is doing serious subscriber numbers these days but his writing quality has noticeably decreased of late, unfortunately. It’s probably good for him personally; he’s doing much less work and making much more money. I’m not sure a socialist labor-supporter should have that as a top priority, but what do I know? Not much.

Anyway, I wasn’t going to watch this video but then I ended up being glad I had, because it included pretty decent analysis, calling out people who can’t remember that history is long and well-documented, regardless of their ideological needs.

Rachel Maddow Brings Back Russiagate INSANITY by Glenn Greenwald (YouTube)

At 06:45, Glenn says

“I also love the conceit that only now is the United States lining up with the world’s dictators. Does she have any idea who American allies are? What governments we’ve installed? Which governments we prop up? Did she watch Joe Biden go and meet with Mohamad bin Salman? After promising to turn the Saudis into outcasts after they got caught murdering a journalist from the Washington Post? As she watched the billions of dollars every year going from […] Washington to Cairo to prop up the incredibly violent brutal Egyptian dictator? Does she know anything about American history?

“These people really believe in this fairy tale, that the United States upholds the rules-based international order.

“The same country that cheered the ICC when it declared Putin a war criminal said, ‘oh that’s very good, ICC. That’s the right move. That’s very important what you did,‘ and then sanction them—the same court—when, a year later, they reached the same conclusion about America’s ally Israel. And then sanction the judges and the prosecutors responsible.

“Only in the United States and a few capitals in Western Europe can you still say that crap ‘oh the United States stands for the 80 years of the post World War I rules-based International order,’ and not provoke a laughing fit. Everyone outside of the United States understands that that is a joke.”